Adobe Media Player lets you watch your favorite shows, anytime, anywhere—while enabling new ways for content businesses to create, deliver, and monetize high-quality content and advertising through a customizable cross-platform player that supports both downloaded and streamed media.
Adobe got a new sparkling wide design. They seem to have focussed more on the content and less on those beveled UIs. They've also given more emphasis to widescreen format which is more popular these days. The new design is good.
The best part of the Adobe Flash Media Server 3 announcement was that of the new pricing options which gives the customers a wide array of choices for broadcasting of high quality streaming media experiences.
Adobe Flash Player is an advanced client runtime for delivering powerful and consistent user experiences across browsers, operating systems and mobile devices.
Microsoft still has a long way to go before it even stands a chance of displacing its main competitor, Adobe's Flash technology. Still, Silverlight 2.0 does appear to represent a major step forward for Microsoft.
The Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition is a standalone player for supported mobile phones to allow developers to test their Flash Lite 3 applications before commercial devices start shipping with the full version of Flash Lite 3 pre-installed.
Adobe will not allow third party streaming servers to stream H.264 video or AAC Audio into the Flash Player? One would need an appropriate license from Adobe to do so! So, for the future high quality Video on Web, will Adobe have the last laugh?